From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 7:13:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f45.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CD2837BA8C for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomhines2@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 56780 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jun 2000 14:13:48 -0000 Message-ID: <20000619141348.56779.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 207.91.82.137 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:13:48 PDT X-Originating-IP: [207.91.82.137] From: "Tom Hines" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: custom kernel won't boot Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:13:48 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just built and installed a custom kernel for the first time, but it won't boot and I can't boot the old kernel either. I type "boot kernel.old" at the boot loader and it can't find the root partition. It says there's no device ad. What gives? Why can't it find my root partition? I figured I didn't add support for my IDE controller in my kernel config file, but I thought I did. Any ideas? Tom Hines Rockville, MD ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message